While not exactly a comment on the outcome of this question, I do wonder whether people out there actually use variants. I never have, and also don't see the case for them.The QotD seems increasingly to have very "clever" questions about T-SQL behaviour that are most esoteric and have little bearing on my day to day use of the language.Or maybe I'm just weird

Hugo Kornelis (11/30/2011)To me, it was immediately obvious that the v3=v2 / v2=v3 error was a mistake made when entering the question and not a deliberate trick.

Same here, but that was largely because I've followed Tom's comments on these forums for a while and didn't think he'd resort to trick questions

True that. Would the question have come from someone I didn't know yet, I would have picked the same answer, but with less confidence in the outcome. It is a sad fact that some of the questions submitted to the QotD are indeed trick questions.

I was curious when I saw "plonguer", even though I don't speak French. (German, Greek, and Spanish, but no French) The word caught my eye because, in my misspent youth, I read "Down and Out in Paris and London", where, I believe, Orwell was a "plonguer" - the lowest of the low - a dishwasher. Or, am I fooled by a similar word? (The rest of the sig line I was able to translate using an online translator. But, it translated "plonguer" to "diver", which didn't seem to fit the context.)

Later: Duh, must be a slang use of the word for diver in reference to diving into the sink after dishes! Too literal this morning.

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